Best places to buy bedding?

[escrow]

We just bought a new house with a real grown up master suite and grown up furniture, YAY!  Now I need some nice bedding and not sure where to go, weekends are all I have and I have a little 3 year old that makes shopping near impossible

I feel weird buying bedding online, I want to feel it ya know?

[sierramist03]

I'm not sure exactly what style you are looking for but JcPenney target bed bath and beyond and Macy's are always good starting points

[kaylie]

My bedding is from Frette. It's pricey, but I got mine on sale. We've had it for three years now and it still looks new.

If you have to buy it online it might be good to order from a place that does free returns so you can send it back if you're not happy.

[moolarkey]

I bought 800 thread count cotton at Macy's this morning. Queen size, they were $90 on sale, a coupon worked and ended up at $76 with tax. Think they'd originally been $225.

I can't complain, the last set I also got at Macy's while I worked there. I ran down to bedding, asked what the best deal they had on sheets was that day. Ended up getting Queen set for $7, we've used them for 3 years.

[heliocentric]

I know you said you don't want to buy online, but I've had luck with thecompanystore.com. LL Bean and Land's End bedding is also nice, although I've only gotten flannel from them.

I've gotten some nice things at TJMaxx.

I've found Macy's to be hit or miss.

[escrow]

I buy most everything online so I am not necessarily opposed to this if I find a good deal on something

[boiler717]

Serena & Lily, Restoration Hardware, Target and IKEA here. I have a Pottery Barn set that I do not like.

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I second LL Bean for sheets. Their cotton percale sheets, which I've had for maybe 5? years, were rated highest by CR, and that's one CR rec that I agree with (being a textile junky, I don't say that lightly). I've gone through a dozen+ sheet sets looking for "perfect" and for the price, I think they are the best bang for the buck. I also have the Macy's HC 800 TC set, and like them about the same, only LL Bean's were several hundred dollars less. Important things to look for in sheets if you are shopping online and can't feel IME are 100% cotton, long staple cotton (I've read varying things about Egyptian cotton, which has a good rep (I read that sometimes short staple is passed off as real "Egyptian" because it was shitty cotton but grown in Egypt), and I think pima is the American version of long staple). The short staple cotton is the shit that pills up. Short staple and long staple aren't going to feel that different to start, so even putting them through the "feel test" isn't all that indicative of quality.

I got our cotton duvet cover and down duvet/pillows from thecompanystore.com and really love them. I've also been through dozens of bedding sets and can say now that I will never purchase another synthetic fabric bedding set. They just don't wear as well or laundry/clean as well (also they tend to require dry cleaning more than the natural textiles).

ETA: I have some RH linen bedding on our guest bed.  It's nice, but overpriced I think (though I've never bought tons of linen, so maybe it's just generally more expensive).  I bought it only because I was desparate for a particular color/pattern that I couldn't find elsewhere in a quality fabric.

[Susie]

I shop for the pretty pieces (duvet covers, sham pillow cases) at Pottery Barn, West Elm, C&B, etc., and then buy down comforters, pillows, and coordinating sheets on overstock.com, TJ Maxx, or wherever I find a sale.

We have PB on our bed with Overstock sheets. The sheets annoy me because the fitted sheet shrank, but I really like the PB stuff.

[minniebee]

I've found some nice sheets at good prices at TJ Maxx, at least for our guest bedrooms. The bed in our master is a cal-king, and TJ Maxx doesn't carry that size bedding. But for other sizes, they have a decent selection of good-quality sheets.

All the bedding for our cal-king bed came from Macy's. They only carry cal-king online, not in stores. So, I go to the store to see the bedding in person, and then order it in my size from their website. I've been happy with everything I've purchased there, with the exception of these sheets:

bit.ly/16n4Dt1

We registered for these for our wedding, and they felt really nice initially. But, after just about a year of use, they started coming apart in the wash. They were also wearing thin, which doesn't seem like it should happen after a year. We didn't have that sheet set on our bed all the time during that year - we switched to flannel sheets for a couple months in the winter.

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A lot of mine just happens to come from Overstock. I like the selection and I like to browse in the middle of the night when I can't sleep. I've only bought one thing that didn't last there.

I like Target too, becuase the patterns are bold and fun but I don't think that's what you're looking for.

[MrsMB]

Macy's, Bed Bath & Beyond, and JCP

[SusanBAnthony]

I don't know for sheets. I am in the market, so I will follow your advice Juno.

I like duvet covers at ikea. Cheap, fun prints, and I don't need to worry about something getting spilled.

[moolarkey]

Lands' End bedding is also excellent. We have a 25 year old comforter that is still fabulous. It is oxford cloth so it just gets softer and softer. I still love it. I bought sheets at the same time and I swear we used them for at least 10 years. I just bought new sheets at Macy's today but Lands' End is a great source for quality.